Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-02-03
Bills have been introduced in both houses

to provide for the election OF an addition
al Justice of the Supreme Court, ana onN
bill has been noticed to increase the salary /
of the judges. This latter would seem TO
most Unfortunately. During the terms or
court sessions are held day and night, and
In the interim the judges are readihg
briefs, discussing cases and preparing
was organized in 1853 and that year tried
seventy eight cases, as appears by the
clerks record; five years later, 1863 1t
tried eighty-nine cases. The next nve
years interval, 1868, showed eighty-two
cases, a decrease during the war period,
the old motto holding strictly true. The
sword taking the place of the toga. After
that there was a marked increase. In 1913
there were POS cases tried; in 1878 All and
in 1883, the last quinquiennial date 44o
cases.
A bill has been prepared to increase the
force in the railroad commissioner once.
It provides for an additional clerk at
81, 900 year, and for an official TO be
known as the Mechanical Engineer, who Is
to receive a salary of Sl,6OOa year, ana
who is to examine the equipment or rail-
roads, their tracks, switches, cars, ETC.,
and report the result of his inspection,
with recommendations, to his CHIEF Tor
such action as he may think proper
Members of the house have evidently not
lost the sweet tooth Of boyhood days for
when the bill to prevent the adulteration
of candies and CONNECTIONS, and the sale
thereof, came up for action 1t was passed
without dissenting vote.
The house also passed concurrent reso.
luton accepting the invitation OF the
officers of the Michigan university and OF
the CITY of Ann Arbor to visit that insti-
tuition on Thursday, Feb. 3, and the reso-
luton was afterward concurred in by the
senate, which also voted a recess from
| Feb. to Feb 10.
The work of the house is advancing rap
idly, due to the industry of the chief com
mittees and the good management OF the
chairmen. Every morning large mum
Der of reports are submitted, and these re-
ports bring the measures before the house
| tor action as rapidly as the state printers
can print the bills. 1t Is the Judgement oil
many that the present house has better
| constituted committees than any or the
! preceding houses for several sessions.
Particularly To be commended are the ex-
perienced members of the last legislature
who are now serving as chairman or COM
mittees.
The farce OF paying our state officers
| salaries that are not at all commensurate
| with the duties that are required OF them
has been great source OF trouble 10 Sena-
tor Palmer, and he has introduced JOINT
resolution in the senate, proposing an
| amendment to the constitution which VIII
Ak the annual salaries of judges or the cir
cult courts at $500, of the governor OF the
state at 5000, of the state treasurer, sec
rotary of state and commissioner or the
land office at az, 500, of the attorney general
at 5000, and of the superintendent of pub
lie instruction at $4,000. The resolution
proposes that the amendment shall be
| voted on at the election to be held on the
first Monday in April next
The senate devoted an afternoon session
the past week to memorial services in hon.
or of the late Representative Case oil
WAYNE. Senators Edwards, OReilly,
Howell and Post pronounced eloquent eu
logies in honor of the deceased.
A delegation of good men and womer
who want the "age of consent" in females
raised to Is years appeared before The
judiciary committees of the senate ano
house the other morning. DR.. L. Anna
Ballard of Lansing. representing the state
department of social purity, opened The
discussion by reading carefully prepared
paper in which she took strong grounds
that the limit should not be fixed at IA OF
10, but should be placed as high as Is years
Mrs. Rachel Bailey of Hastings represena
tive of the state board of the w. e: L. U.
Mesdames Ketchum and Elizabeth Eagles
field of Grand Rapids, and one or tive
other ladies, followed in short addresses
while Bishop Gillespie OF Grand Rapids
and the Rev. NJ. NJ. Callan of Lansing alst
spoke in support OF the same proposition
, Other ladies of the delegation were Mes
danes j. b. Porter and s. V. Emery o
, Lansing and Hodges of Grand Rapids
Notwithstanding the efforts of thes,
earnest people il seems wholly improbable
, that the present legislature will raise tn,
! age of consent above fourteen years, which
will be four years higher than it now is.
+ A memorial has also been received b,
] the house from the association OF prose
3 cutting attorneys asking that the statute
I relating to the age of consent be amended
: and the age be fixed at ii years.
The bill providing for an additional jus
tice of the supreme court has been favor
ably reported to the senate, and it seem
, practically certain that the measure vii
; be passed.
In executive session the other day tn
senate confirmed the nominations or ID
Hal G. Wyman of Detroit, to be membe
of the state board of charities and correc
7 tions: Sidney ID. Miller to be member o
the board of metropolitan police commits
sioners for the city of Detroit, and VIM
Ball to be member of the board OF contro
, of the state reform school.
! A bill of considerable importance ha
, been introduced in the house by Repre-
> sentative Cross of Van Buren, county rels
tive to the disposition of state part pai'
: swamp lands. The measure provides tina
township boards may make compromis
settlements and determine thereby tn
: sum which the commissioners OF the stat
, land Office may receive in extnguishmen
. OF the ditch, or drain or other take
charged against these swamp lands i
their several townships, and that thi
sum, when so Determined shall be receive
in lieu of all the taxes above described an
| interest theron The passage of the mea
: ure will be of particular advantage {
, many of the township school funds
All after the enacting clause has bee
, stricken out of the joint resolution for tn
!. appointment Of graduates OF the agricu
tural college as second lieutenants in tn
state militia.
Approve Of Her Example,
At the annual meeting of the woman